Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-08-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| FRENCH journals are Directing to En-
Eiand's apparent intention to aid italy
out OF her bad dilemma in Abyssinia ant
oonsummate the conquest of the Red Ses
portion of the country.
| CERTAIN white and colored circles al
Troy, N. Y, are greatly agitated over thu
| charge made against one James Holden,
eoiored man, who, it is alleged, has wor
.he aueetions of comedy white woman
by voodooism.
THE Marine Hospital Bureau is informe t
that smallpox and yellow fever are rag
ing IN Havana, Cuba. During the month
OF July there were 104 deaths from yellow
fever and 112 from smallpox.
| REV. j. NJ. MACHAL, a Catholic priest
who came from ireland to the Brooklyn
diocese last December, died in New Yorf
on the Sth of starvation. He suffered
much from inconsistencies, and during the
late hot spell he became demented AMI re-
fused to eat.
| HRoNEK, under sentence of death at st
Joseph, Mo-, for wife murder, has beer
granted stay of execution.
| THE Montreal (Can.) Warehousing Com
pany's building was damaged by fire or
the 9th, to the extent of $4,000. One hun
| dred and twenty-five thousand bushels OF
grain were also destroyed, the loss on
which is $1,000; insured.
| WILLIAM s. COLLINS, one OF the most
active of the pioneer settlers of Scott
County, Ia, died on the 9th, aged eighty
| two. He had been a resident of Daven
port since 1888, and had built many bust.
ness blocks and made other substantial i'm.
provements to the city in the early days.
| THE Dominion Minister of Militia and
General Middleton will shortly start for
British Columbia for the purpose Of in.
speeding the site of the proposed defenses
of Esquimauet. The earthworks will be
| built at the expense of Canada, while En-
gland will supply the armament.
| MANY Of the peers in the British House
of Lords are in a state of revolt against
| the Land bill.
THE Virginia Republican State commit
tee met at Senator Mahone's home on the
10th to map out a policy.
THE British Cabinet are said to be divid-
| ed on the question of proclaiming the
| Irish National League.
THE negro editors had some lively dis
| cussions of politics and politicians at their
| convention in Louisville, KY, on the 10th.
BARNEY MCKERNAN Frank Mcdonald
| and Chris Hoell, members of the st. Louis
fire department, were killed by a falling
wall at the ruins of the Bishop & Spear
peanut warehouse on the 10th. Several
others were injured.
AT Muskegon, Mich, on the 10th, mill
fires resulted in loss of over 100000 feet
of lumber owned by Stimson & Fay, Mann
& Co., Meckley & Co. and others. The
total losses aggregate $4,000, on which
there is fair insurance.
OCEAN cable differences are still unad-
justed. The indications point to further
cut in rates, which will extend to the
Western Union and Baltimore & Ohio
telegraph companies.
BRITISH railway circles are much disap-
pointed at the refusal of Parliament to
pass the bill authorizing the construction
of tunnel under the English chanpe' to
connect Englan and France.
AT its convention in New York on the
10th the Order of American Firemen adopt
ed a constitution providing for National
association, fraternal and social in its
character, but not secret. A proposition
to provide for mutual benefit insurance
was rejected as undesirable during the ex-
perimental stage of the association.
FOURTEEN new cases of cholera and six
deaths We're reported at Malta on the 9th.
IT is reported now that the President
contemplates going off on few days fish
ing excursion into West Virginia with
Senator kenna.
Mr.. BLAINE went from Dublin to Cork
on the 10th, and personally witnessed the
eviction of some Irish tenants.
The American Bar Association will hold
its tenth annual meeting at Saratoga
Springs, n. Y, August II to 10 inclusive.
Thomas j. Semmes, of Louisiana, the pres
ident, will deliver his address ON Wednes-
day, the first day, in the evening.
LATE on the night of the 9th, fire in the
building of the Steam Power Company at
Concord, N. H, occupied by Monroe & Co.,
and Cropley & Co., shoe manufacturers,
caused loss of 1925, 700; small insurance.
THE mills of NJ. 6 j. O'Donnell, of Jer-
sey City, N. j., situated east of Brigden,
Ont, on the st. Clair branch road, ignited
by brush fires on the 10th, and the sheds,
together with 100000 of matched slaves,
We're burned. The loss is $150,0O0.
E. G. WHITTLEsEY, business manager of
The Day, at New London, Conn.,, who was
shot down in his office by Frederick A.
Sperry, the crank who took offense at
published article, died from the effects of
his wounds on the 10th.
THE reported shooting of William Car
son, sheriff of Costello County, Col, and
eldest son of the famous Kit Carson, by a
Mexican desperado, proves to be incor-
rect. He is still alive and well. 1t is be-
lieved that there was a killing, however,
as stated, but that the victim was Kit, a
HENRY IVES & Co., brokers at No. 26
Nassau street, New York, on the 18th an
nounced their inability to meet their en-
gagements. Liabilities, $20,000,000.
FRED HoPT, the murderer, was shot to
death according to the law, near Salt Lake
City, Utah, on the 18th.
BUSH fires are raging in parts of Cana
da. Several Indians are reported to have
burned to death.
THE report that Admiral Luce of the
North Atlantic squadron is to be succeeded
by Commodore Benham is denied by Sec
rotary Whitney.
PRINCE FERDINAND continues his jour-
ney to Sofia, regardless of whether he is
allowed to ascend the throne or not.
CONTRACTS have been signed for building
the Mexican National railway from Saltillo
to San Luis Potosi.
A TERRIBLE railway accident occurred
on the Toledo, Peoria & Western road near
Chatsworth, ILL.,, ON the morning of the
18th. Coaches containing about five hum
dred people plunged through a burning
bridge into the Vermillion river, and the
loss of life and injury is something appall-
ing to contemplate.
THE forests adjoining Fort Wayne, Ind,
were all on fire on the 18th, and farmers
were busy fighting fire and taking care of
their property. The Wabash road, which
runs through Little River prairie, expert
enced great trouble getting it's trains over
the road between Fort Wayne and Roam
oke station, ten miles west.
BY an accidental overturning of the
working skip at the Cleveland mine at Ish-
peming, Mich, on the 18th, Edwin Cox and
two other men, names unknown, We're
killed. They fell twenty feet to the bot
tom of the shaft. Three others were injur-
ed two of them fatally.